{"id":1479643,"date":"2022-05-18T13:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479643"},"modified":"2022-05-18T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:44:47","slug":"comedian-ricky-gervais-says-he-deals-with-taboo-subjects-in-his-shows-and-smart-people-can-deal-with-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comedian-ricky-gervais-says-he-deals-with-taboo-subjects-in-his-shows-and-smart-people-can-deal-with-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Ricky Gervais Says He \u2018Deals With Taboo Subjects\u2019 In His Shows And \u2018Smart People\u2019 Can \u2018Deal With Anything\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcomedian-ricky-gervais-says-he-deals-with-taboo-subjects-in-his-shows-and-smart-people-can-deal-with-anything%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479643&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-931524416-scaled-e1614281711775.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Comedian Ricky Gervais talked about how he \u201cdeals with taboo subjects\u201d at his shows like AIDS, Adolf Hitler, and cancer as he claimed \u201csmart people\u201d can deal with anything, particularly when it comes to irony.<\/p>\n<p>During the 60-year-old\u2019s appearance on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zs35KefcNjU\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u201d Tuesday, the host asked Gervais if he had to change his jokes for his new stand-up show \u201cSuperNature\u201d for Netflix. Gervais said he had started working on material for the special at the end of 2018, but the pandemic interfered with his progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018It was always evolving,\u201d Gervais shared. \u201cThere was a thought, \u2018Will this be out of date?\u2019 And then I realized that when you\u2019re dealing with, you know, famine, AIDS, cancer, Hitler, those dudes are evergreen. Yeah, so they\u2019re not going to, they don\u2019t date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no audience that isn\u2019t going to love that,\u201d Colbert replied, busting up the comedian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cBoo! Not Hitler!\u201d he added, laughing facetiously. \u201cIt was a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, you don\u2019t go to a Ricky Gervais concert for just feel good,\u201d Colbert interjected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, they do feel good, and the aim is to make them laugh and they do laugh, but they know that I deal with taboo subjects,\u201d \u201cThe Office\u201d star admitted. \u201cBut I deal with taboo subjects because I want to take the audience to a place it hasn\u2019t been before and there is a tension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think people get offended when they mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target, and smart people know you can deal with anything, particularly when dealing with something like irony,\u201d he added. \u201cHumor gets us over bad stuff. That\u2019s why I laugh about terrifying bad things. You know, that\u2019s why comedians are obsessed with death because, you know, it gets us through\u2026it\u2019s an inoculation to the real things that are going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gervais previously admitted he wants to \u201ctry and get cancelled\u201d with his next stand-up show, reported U.K. magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/ricky-gervais-insists-wants-cancelled-26101495\">Heat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I\u2019ve decided to definitely do, and can\u2019t wait to start on, is my new stand-up show, which is going to be called Armageddon,\u201d Gervais shared. \u201cI\u2019m treating it like it\u2019s my last one ever. It won\u2019t be, but I want to put everything into it. I want to try and get cancelled. No, I just want to go all-out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about the end of the world and how we\u2019re going to destroy ourselves for lots of reasons, whether it\u2019s media stupidity, or the actual end of the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>SuperNature will be available on Netflix on May 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Ricky Gervais talked about how he \u201cdeals with taboo subjects\u201d at his shows like AIDS, Adolf Hitler, and cancer as he claimed \u201csmart people\u201d can deal with anything, particularly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1483581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}